Re: date formats in docbook

[Dan Mueth <muet alumni uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, David Merrill wrote:

> Are you standardizing on ISO date formats in your XML? I ran across an omf 
> file with a date of "May 2002" and my code is barfing on it. Before I 
> have to write or look for a date parser, I want to make sure this wasn't 
> an oversight on your part. OMF does recommend that best practice is to 
> use ISO dates.

You are right that dates should be in the YYYY-MM-DD form 
(or more generally, according to: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime), so 
that date should be fixed.

-Dan